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The website Walla News reported that one of her friends Tair Rada tried to force 20-th channel to remove air from the interview with the mother of the murdered girl, in which a woman expresses doubt that her daughter was killed, Roman Zadorov .

According to Walla News, Ilana Rada became the guest of the program from Lior Dayan «Akol Le zitut» on 20-th channel ITV. The program with her participation needs to go on the air the evening of February 23. In this interview, the mother of Tair Rada said he doesn’t believe what her daughter was killed by a Roman Zdorovym. In her opinion, it was friends of her daughter. Ilana Rada does not name names, but said that after the murder the girls were behaving «suspiciously». To a question from Lior Dayan, if she suspects anyone in particular, and she says, «I’d like to say no, but in light of all the evidence and given the way the trial was held, I, unfortunately, can’t be negative».

Walla News indicates that during the week of 20-th channel ITV as advertising showing excerpts from that interview. February 23, a few hours before the broadcast, with 20-m channel were contacted by the lawyer representing interests of one of her friends Tair Rada and demanded to do this interview with ether.

In the letter sent by counsel, indicated that her client know that the channel is going to show the interview in which the mother accuses the Tair Rada murder of his girlfriends daughter. According to the lawyer, her client went to school with Tair Rada and such statements may constitute libel. The lawyer warned: in case the interview will be shown, the client will return to court.

The murder of Tair Rada, perfect December 6, 2006, shocked the country, primarily because of what happened in school. It was perhaps the first in the history of Israel, the murder committed at school.

Body Tair with stab wounds was found in a school toilet. After a week on suspicion of murder was arrested on 29-year-old maintenance worker Roman Zadorov. A week later, media reported that Zadorov confessed to killing the girls. According to the confession, Zadorov, Tahir was killed because she insulted him in response to the refusal to give a cigarette.

But the next day Zadorov refused recognition, claiming that he didn’t kill the Tair, and the confession was made under strong pressure. The progress of the investigation and the trial, which lasted about three years, was widely covered by Israeli media.

14 September 2010 the court sentenced Roman Zadorov found guilty of the murder of Tair Rada, to life imprisonment. The 450-page text of the judge’s sentence said that throughout the trial Zadorov was lying. From the decision that, in its recognition and in conversations with «decoy» Zadorov called seven details of the murder that could only know the killer.

The Supreme court has accepted for consideration the appeal filed by lawyers Zadorov, then returned the case for reconsideration in the district court of Nazareth the light of new expert evidence protection. However, judge Yitzhak Cohen 24 February 2014 again recognized Zadorov guilty of murder.

In October 2014 Zadorov lawyers filed another appeal with the Supreme court contesting the evidence on which the prosecution was based. The court accepted the appeal to consideration today announced the final verdict.

The re-appeal was related to the Shoe print found on the trousers of the murdered girls. According to experts, it is impossible to say that this Shoe fits Zadorov, but that’s a Shoe print. Advocates also point to excessive compensation received by «decoy» after receiving recognition Zadorov to other problematic aspects on which the district court closed his eyes.

Case Zadorov was accompanied by scandal. The Comptroller General of the Prosecutor’s office Gila Gertel came to the conclusion that the Prosecutor’s office tried to intervene in the proceedings, forcing the Director of the Institute of forensic medicine of the hen Kugel to change his testimony in the case of the appointment of a forensic scientist Maya Forman-Reznik that could affect the case Zadorov.

The pathologist Maya Forman-Reznik acted as a defense expert in the case of Roman Zadorov. Judges authoring a verdict on the murder of Tahir, criticized the examination Forman-Reznik, questioning her competence. Later the Director of the Institute of forensic medicine Hyun Kugel defended Forman-Reznik, agreeing with her conclusions. On the testimony of Kugel, the Supreme court returned the case Zadorov for reconsideration in the district court of Nazareth, and ordered the Institute for forensic medicine to take Forman-Reznik to work.

17 February 2016 Zadorov lawyers filed with the Supreme court a request to hold another hearing on this case.

One of her friends Tair Rada demands from the channel to shoot an interview, defending the Novel Zadorov 23.02.2016